Historical files on neoprene, 1931-2006.

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Historical files on neoprene, 1931-2006.

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The records consist of a mix of historical and contemporary documents assembled for publicity purposes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of neoprene in 1981, enlarged to cover the 70th anniversary in 2001, and kept up with subsequent additions. In 1994, DuPont and the Dow Chemical Company combined their operations in a 50/50 joint venture, DuPont Dow Elastomers, L.L.C. This partnership was dissolved subsequent to 2001, and neoprene is, as of 2008, produced and marketed by DuPont Performance Elastomers, L.L.C. and its international affiliates. The records include various internal documents on neoprene dating back to 1931, technical reports by, and biographies and memoirs of, the leading research chemists involved with its development, official chronologies of neoprene research and production, samples of neoprene made in the Louisville Works in 1942, press kits and pamphlets issued to celebrate the anniversaries, and copies of magazines and newsletters containing articles on neoprene history. Of particular note is a 1936 illustrated report by Oliver M. Hayden on the parallel development of artificial rubber by I.G. Farben in Germany and by Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., in Britain. The most recent materials focus on the medical uses of neoprene and other types of artificial rubber.

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Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Elastomer Chemicals Dept.

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DuPont Dow Elastomers, L.L.C.

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Nieuwland, Julius A. (Julius Arthur), 1878-1936

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Professor of botany and organic chemistry, University of Notre Dame, 1904-1936; inventor of neoprene (synthetic rubber). From the description of Papers, 1895-1937. (University of Notre Dame). WorldCat record id: 23601354 ...

DuPont Performance Elastomers, L.L.C.

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Neoprene is the generic name of an artificial rubber developed by E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company in 1930-31. In 1923, Father Julius A. Nieuwland, a professor of organic chemistry at Notre Dame University, had discovered that acetylene gas could be polymerized. Two years later, Father Nieuwland met Elmer K. Bolton of DuPont at a meeting of the American Chemical Society. Bolton saw the commercial possibilities of Nieuwland's discovery, and DuPont's research chemists...

Schroeder, H. E.

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H. E. Schroeder was a research chemist who spent most of his career with E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Herman Elbert Schroeder was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., on July 6, 1915. He attended Brooklyn's well-known Polytechnic Preparatory Country Day School and completed all of his college studies at Harvard, receiving his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1939. He joined DuPont in 1938 and rose to become Director of Research and Development (1963-1980), specializing in the fields o...

Collins, Arnold M. (Arnold Miller), 1899-1982

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E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Elastomers Division.

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Hayden, Oliver M. (Oliver Mills), 1893-1991

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Born in Windsor, Connecticut on 20 August 1893. Education: A.B., Chemistry, Clark College (1914). Employment: 1915 Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Company ; 1915-1917 Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company ; 1917-19191 U.S. Army Sanitary Corps ; 1919-1926 Fisk Rubber Company ; 1926-1957 E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. From the description of Oral history interview with Oliver M. Hayden 1986 February 18 (Chemical Heritage Foundation). WorldCat record id: 78583810 Olive...

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. Polymer Products Dept.

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Imperial Chemical Industries, ltd.

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